Re: How to define a global order of tools in Sakai

Thanks John/Vivie/Jon.

A follow-up question: we also want to hide some tools from students, but 
make them available to the instructors,  how can we do that?

thanks,
Lydia

At 12:18 PM 4/28/2006, John Leasia wrote:
> Lydia - the toolOrder.xml file, which can be put in your sakai folder next 
> to sakai.properties, can help with that. There is a sample in the demo 
> folder in subversion. Here is some info I found form an old email from 
> Glenn explaining it a bit.
> -----------------
> From Glenn:
> I've restored, sort of, our old feature of assuring a consistent order of 
> tools in sites.  It's a little different than it was.
>
> First, we order the pages when we put them out in the portal.  That means 
> that changing the order will be reflected in all sites.  Worksite setup 
> will not show the order - tools are listed in alpha order there.
>
> The order is by site type / tool category.  So we can define an order for 
> "course" and a different one for "project", and more for other types.  A 
> site type does not have to have any order defined.
>
> The order is read in from an XML file, whose name is configured to the 
> ServerConfigurationService, and whose location is in sakai.home.
>
>        <property name="toolOrderFile"><value>toolOrder.xml</value></property>
>
> That's the default.  It can be overridden by sakai.properties, but likely 
> won't be.  Instead, the Sakai installation will just have the desired 
> toolOrder.xml in the sakai.home location.
>
> The file looks like this, defining an ordered set of tools for each category:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>
> <toolOrder>
>
>    <category name="course">
>
>        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.chat" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.discussion" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.announcement" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.syllabus" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.schedule" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.announcements" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.resources" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.discussion" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.assignment" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.assignment.grades" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.samigo" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.dropbox" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.chat" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.mailbox" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.news" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.iframe" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.siteinfo" />
>
>    </category>
>
>    <category name="project">
>
>        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.chat" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.discussion" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.synoptic.announcement" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.schedule" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.announcements" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.resources" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.discussion" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.assignment" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.assignment.grades" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.samigo" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.dropbox" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.chat" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.mailbox" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.news" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.iframe" />
>        <tool id = "sakai.siteinfo" />
>
>    </category>
>
> </toolOrder>
>
> The "synoptic" stuff at the top is to catch the "home" page.  Note the two 
> assignment entries.
>
> Any page in the site that has a tool in this list will be placed in the 
> order set by the list. If the page has multiple tools, it will be ordered 
> with the first one in this list.
>
> All other pages go after the ordered ones.
>
> Help, not being a page really, ends up at the bottom.
>
> ----------------------
>
> Lydia Li wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > This is another question from our pilot team at Stanford:
> >
> > Is there a way to define a global order of the tools so all the tools 
> > show up in the same order in all of our course sites, and in any new 
> > course sites we create?    Currently, the order seems to be random, and 
> > we have to rearrange the order for tools for each individual course 
> > site.  If we add a new tool, the order gets messed up again.
> > It's a little frustrating.
> >
> > Is there a configuration file? Or does this require code changes?
> > We'd appreciate any help on this.
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > Lydia
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